Then it dawned on me that I'd previously heard the name of this mysterious animal with menacing-looking incisors, and there was no longer anything cute about it: Nutria. I followed the rodent ...

The nutria is a large, semiaquatic rodent species native to South America that has developed into an invasive species as it continues to crop up in marshes and swamps across the United States.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...